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Sancaklı Kalesi
Sancaklı Kalesi, also called Ada Tepe or Adakale, is an archaeological site in Karşıyaka, İzmir, on Mount Yamanlar's slopes; a defense point of ancient Smyrna, distinct from Ottoman Sancak Kale at İnciraltı.
Sancaktepe
Sancaktepe, a district of Istanbul on the Anatolian side, became a district in 2008, covers 62 km², and is served by the M5 driverless metro and the İlhan Varank Training and Research Hospital.
Sancerre (wine)
Sancerre is a Loire Valley AOC in France's Cher department: whites from Sauvignon Blanc (AOC 1936, ~80% of production), reds and rosés from Pinot Noir (1959), on limestone, flint and clay soils across 14 communes.
Sanchana Natarajan
Sanchana Natarajan (சஞ்சனா நடராஜன்), Chennai-born Indian model and actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema; debut Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe (2014); won Raj TV's Tamil Pesum Khadanayegi (2013); notable roles in Nota, Game Over, Jigarthanda Double X.
Sanchari Vijay (ಸಂಚಾರಿ ವಿಜಯ್)
Sanchari Vijay (ಸಂಚಾರಿ ವಿಜಯ್), born Vijay Kumar Basavarajiah (1983-2021), was a Kannada cinema actor who won the 62nd National Film Award for Best Actor for Naanu Avanalla Avalu; stage-trained, about 30 films, died in a road accident.
Sanchayita
Sanchayita (সঞ্চয়িতা) is a 1931 self-edited anthology of Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali poetry, containing nearly 400 poems he chose across his career; it remains the standard single-volume selection and is often confused with Kazi Nazrul Islam's Sanchita.
Sanchi Stupa
The Sanchi Stupa, also known as the Great Stupa or Stupa 1, is a hemispherical Buddhist monument in Madhya Pradesh, India, begun in the 3rd century BCE under Emperor Aśoka.
Sanchi Yakshi
The Sanchi Yakshi is a sandstone figure of a female tree spirit on the eastern gateway of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, India, dated to about the mid-first century BCE.
Sanchita Shetty
Sanchita Shetty, Indian film actress in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu cinema; known for Soodhu Kavvum (2013) as Vijay Sethupathi's imaginary love interest; Tamil debut Thillalangadi (2010).
Sanchiya Honnamma
Sanchiya Honnamma (ಸಂಚಿಯ ಹೊನ್ನಮ್ಮ) was a Kannada poetess, born around 1680 at Yelandur, who served King Chikkadevaraja of Mysore and wrote the didactic poem Hadibadeya Dharma.
Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza is the peasant who serves as squire to Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes's novel Don Quixote (1605, 1615), a squat, practical contrast to his idealistic master.
Sanchuan Commandery
Sanchuan Commandery (三川郡) was a Qin dynasty commandery established after Qin's boundary reached Daliang, named for the He, Luo, and Yi rivers and later transformed into the Han-era Henan Commandery.
Sanchuelo
Sanchuelo (عبد الرحمن بن المظفر), son of Almanzor and grandson of the king of Pamplona, was chamberlain of Cordoba who ruled al-Andalus until his execution in 1009.
Sanchuniathon
Sanchuniathon (Sakun-yaton, Punic sknytn), legendary pre-Homeric Phoenician author of a cosmogony and religious history, known only through Philo of Byblos's Phoenician History preserved in Eusebius; authenticity long disputed, partly confirmed by Ugaritic texts.
Sancocho
Sancocho: thick Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean meat-and-tuber stew, from Spanish sancochar (half-cook). National dish of Panama (hen, ñame, culantro); Dominican seven-meat celebration version; Colombian regional variants.
Sanctae Mariae in Palmis
Sanctae Mariae in Palmis, also called Santa Maria in Palmis, is a 17th-century church on Rome's Via Appia Antica marking where Peter met the risen Christ.
Sanctioning Russia Act
Sanctioning Russia Act: US sanctions legislation, first the 2025 Graham-Blumenthal bill (S.1241) and then the enacted Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (Public Law 119-111), imposing sanctions on Russian officials, banks, and energy buyers, 500 percent tariffs on Russian goods, and 100 percent tariffs on top purchasers of Russian oil and gas, largely waived by executive order in October 2026.
Sanctions against Rhodesia
Sanctions against Rhodesia were UN economic sanctions imposed on Southern Rhodesia after Ian Smith's white minority government unilaterally declared independence from Britain in 1965, remaining in force until 1979.
Sanctuaries of Apollo Deiradiotes and Athena Oxyderkes
Sanctuaries of Apollo Deiradiotes and Athena Oxyderkes (Ιερά Απόλλωνος Δειραδιώτη και Αθηνάς Οξυδερκούς), adjoining Argive sanctuaries on the Aspis/Deiras at Argos, with a monthly lamb-blood oracle and a shrine dedicated by Diomedes, described by Pausanias 2.24.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a sacred place set apart, and the immunity from prosecution a fugitive could claim by entering it, from ancient temples to modern sanctuary cities.
Sanctuary (2007 TV series)
Sanctuary (2007) is a Canadian sci-fi web series, also called webisodes, created by Damian Kindler, starring Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus; it debuted 14 May 2007, cost CAN$4.5 million, and became the Syfy TV series.
Sanctuary (2022 film)
Sanctuary (2022) is an American psychological thriller directed by Zachary Wigon, written by Micah Bloomberg, starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott as a dominatrix and her hotel-heir client in a one-night hotel-room power struggle; premiered at TIFF 2022, released by NEON in May 2023.
Sanctuary (Evanescence album)
Sanctuary (Evanescence album): Evanescence's sixth studio album, released June 5, 2026 via BMG; follow-up to The Bitter Truth; singles Afterlife and Who Will You Follow, the band's first two Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s.
Sanctuary (サンクチュアリ -聖域-)
Sanctuary (サンクチュアリ -聖域-) is a 2023 Netflix Japanese drama series, 8 episodes released May 4, 2023, directed by Kan Eguchi and written by Tomoki Kanazawa, starring Wataru Ichinose as delinquent-turned-sumo-wrestler Kiyoshi Oze (Enzou).
Sanctuary at Agios Konstantinos (Methana)
Mycenaean sanctuary at Agios Konstantinos, Methana peninsula, Greece; also called the Mycenaean shrine of Methana. Discovered 1990 under a chapel, LH IIIA-B, with ~150 figurines and pig sacrifice evidence, possibly dedicated to Poseidon.
Sanctuary at Fondo Iozzino
Sanctuary at Fondo Iozzino (Santuario extraurbano del Fondo Iozzino), an extra-urban sanctuary south of Pompeii's Porta Nocera, worshipped from the 7th century BC, dedicated to the Etruscan deity APA, with the largest engraved bucchero corpus in Southern Italy.
Sanctuary at San Casciano dei Bagni
Etruscan-Roman thermal sanctuary at the Bagno Grande spring, San Casciano dei Bagni (Siena, Tuscany), also called Il Santuario Ritrovato. In use 3rd century BC to 5th century AD; 2022 excavations found over 20 intact bronze statues, ex-votos, and thousands of coins in the sacred pool.
Sanctuary city
Sanctuary city: US state or local jurisdiction limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, via detainer refusals and information-sharing limits; no federal legal definition; targeted by 2025 executive orders, DOJ lawsuits largely dismissed, and crime research showing no crime increase.
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania, an Athenian Agora cult place of Heavenly Aphrodite near the Hephaisteion, known from Pausanias and the c. 500 BC altar excavated 1981-1982.
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia, at Palaepaphos (Kouklia), Cyprus: the ancient world's most famous sanctuary of Aphrodite, founded c. 1200 BC, aniconic conical-stone cult, Roman rebuilding c. AD 100, UNESCO World Heritage since 1980.